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Certainly, America’s actions in Iraq, contribution to global warming, and uneven commitment to multilateral problem-solving leave a much room for criticism of US behavior both.
But they warn that the distribution or “spread” of these benefits will be uneven.
The current tensions over free trade, rooted in the uneven distribution of its benefits, cannot be resolved within the WTO, let alone by a ministerial gathering.
Developments in Egypt will have uneven consequences in the region.
But while more children are attending classes, school quality remains uneven.
But this strategy has produced uneven results.
Concentrated in coastal China, this model produced an uneven distribution of output and established a unique pattern of high savings and low consumption.
The world economy would heal, but in a slow and uneven fashion, as advanced economies muddled through while the more dynamic emerging world gradually closed today’s income and wealth gaps.
Unfortunately, other signs point to an uneven, faltering global recovery.
Parameters become variables; balance sheet repairs proceed in a slow and uneven fashion; and policymakers experience an uncomfortable shift in the balance of benefits, costs, and risks.
The problematic features of the British-drafted Indian Penal Code include the prohibition of “sedition,” defined loosely as speech or actions promoting “disaffection against the government established by law”; the criminalization of homosexual acts; and the uneven prosecution of adultery.
With the euro taking the blame in recent years for Europe’s many economic travails (from a double-dip recession to a slow and uneven recovery), nationalist, Euroskeptic, and populist political movements have gained ground.
More recently, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which accounts for the distribution of wealth and social and environmental costs, showed that, while China’s per capita GDP has routinely grown at an annual rate exceeding 10% in the last three decades, per capita GPI leveled off in 1998, largely owing to mounting environmental damage and an increasingly uneven distribution of wealth.
While the Bank highlights women’s progress in education, life expectancy, and labor-force participation, it also describes continuing problems, including the excessive death rates of girls and women in low- and middle-income countries, educational disparities, uneven economic opportunities, and unequal authority within and outside the home.
Unfortunately, the quality of debt-management practices among the new bond issuers is uneven.
With the official banking system thus constrained, it allocated the remaining credit to large enterprises and those with sufficient collateral, resulting in an uneven distribution of loans across regions and sectors.
Seen in this light, inequality is an uneven distribution not only of wealth, but also of liberty.
Fueled by racism and fears of overcrowding, globalism turned predatory: powerful countries imposed uneven trade pacts on neighbors and partners, or simply overran them.
International trade is by definition a competition between companies on an uneven playing field.
And labor-market shifts – driven by technological change, the globalization of low- and medium-skill jobs, and the growing prevalence of part-time, temporary employment – have caused the wage share of national income to decline and the distribution of that income among households to become increasingly uneven.
Some of the blame for this goes to Western governments that, ignoring the uneven effects of free trade, failed to assist the “losers.”
Indeed, corporations’ growing share of income has been a major driver behind the long, if uneven, bull market in stocks that began in the early 1990’s.
Because the required skills acquired through formal education have become relatively scarcer, the education premium has risen, underpinning a more uneven distribution of income and wealth.
Yet, from one government to the next, the result will be massively uneven – a recurring problem during Europe’s multi-decade drive for internal currency stability.
Companies and investors exposed to risk in Europe must assume much more volatility in interest rates within the euro zone and increasingly uneven growth and inflation prospects.
But, aside from these uneven successes, the region remains weakened by mistrust, poorly integrated, and incapable of sustained growth.
Put differently: if a society’s initial playing field is very uneven, that society will remain quite unequal even after a sizeable fiscal redistribution.
But progress has been uneven, and performance on achieving some of the MDGs’ targets has been poor.
The growing concentration of wealth, together with highly uneven educational quality, is contributing to declines in intergenerational economic mobility, in turn threatening social and political cohesion.
Rather than claiming the opposite, politicians should acknowledge that there are no quick fixes to the uneven geography of modern economic development.
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